about

Katherine Morrissey is currently a Lecturer in the College of Communication and Information at the University of Kentucky. From 2014 – 2017, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Katherine received her PhD in English (Media, Cinema and Digital Studies) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) in May 2016. She has a Master’s in Communication, Culture and Technology from Georgetown University and professional experience in web management, graphic design for web/print, as well as communications and marketing in the non-profit sector. Katherine’s research focuses on representations female desire across popular culture, storytelling across media, production networks for popular romance genres, participatory culture, digital production, and digital pedagogy.

Katherine serves as Review Editor for the Transformative Works and Cultures journal and Co-Vice President for the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance. Katherine is a recipient of UWM’s Provost’s/UWM Libraries Scholar Award and served as Co-Director of HASTAC’s annual Feminist Scholars Digital Workshop in 2014 and 2015. Katherine’s work has been published in Flow, the Journal for Popular Romance Studies, and Transformative Works and Cultures. She is currently working on a book project, tentatively titled, “Redefining Romance: Love & Desire in Today’s Digital Culture.”